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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Paperback)
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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Paperback)
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This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume
originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of
wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as
if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of
ethnologists or sociologists.The book begins with a discussion of
the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe
the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts
that frequently upset it, with individual gods acting to protect
their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to
gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not
invulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are
considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel
pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and
little-known texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the
pharaoh, who was believed to represent them on earth. By performing
appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate equilibrium,
balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld of Osiris and
the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was autonomous and
had its own mythological context, the separate spheres were also
interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course and the pharaoh's
ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the universe.
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